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<span class="anchor" id="line-3"></span><div><table><tbody><tr>  <td style="border: medium none; text-align: justify; width: 50%;"><p class="line862">
 Telepathy is a flexible, modular communications framework that enables 
real-time communication via pluggable protocol backends. Telepathy is a <strong>communications service</strong> that can be accessed by many applications ("clients") simultaneously.<br>
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This allows any application to access presence information, request a 
communications channel (potentially handled by another client), or 
collaborate contact-to-contact. </p></td>
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 Telepathy provides protocol backends for most popular protocols 
including: Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk/Jingle, link-local XMPP, SIP, MSN, 
Yahoo/AIM and IRC via a unified <a class="http" href="http://dbus.freedesktop.org/">D-Bus</a> API.<br>
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It also provides convenience libraries for GLib, Qt4 and Python to simplify using the API from applications. </p></td>
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 Telepathy exposes the available real-time communications capabilities 
of each protocol: presence, contact rosters, text chat, voice and video 
over IP, file transfer and <a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tubes">Telepathy Tubes</a>. </p></td>
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  <td style="border: medium none; text-align: justify;"><p class="line862"> Telepathy is modular. Each backend and client runs in a separate process, allowing for much greater security and resilience. </p></td>
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 Telepathy is suitable for embedded and desktop environments and 
provides the communications framework for the Nokia N900, OLPC/Sugar and
 the Meego platform.<br>
<br>
Telepathy development is supported by <a class="http" href="http://www.collabora.co.uk/projects/telepathy/">Collabora</a>.</p></td>
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<tr>  <td style="border: medium none;"><span class="anchor" id="line-8"></span><p class="line862"> </p><div dir="ltr" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.content" lang="en"><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.top"></span>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-3"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-4"></span><p class="line867">
</p><h2 id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.UsingTelepathy">Using Telepathy</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-5"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download">Download</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-6"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Rationale">Rationale</a>: why Telepathy is the way it is <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-7"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Protocols%20Support">Protocols Support</a>: which all features of the protocols are supported <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-8"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Setup">Setup</a>: how to get various Telepathy components up and running) <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-9"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Components">Components</a>: the parts of the Telepathy system <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-10"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-11"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-12"></span></p></li></ul><p class="line867">
</p><h3 id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.Clients">Clients</h3>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-13"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://live.gnome.org/Empathy">Empathy</a>: IM/VoIP client for GNOME <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.line-14"></span></p></li></ul><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-UsingTelepathy.bottom"></span></div> </td>
  <td style="border: medium none;"><p class="line862"> </p><div dir="ltr" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.content" lang="en"><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.top"></span>
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</p><h2 id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.DevelopingWithTelepathy">Developing With Telepathy</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-2"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-3"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/System%20Overview">System Overview</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-4"></span></p></li><li><p class="line862">The <a class="http" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/">Telepathy Developer's Manual</a> is still a work in progress, but already provides good introductions to many Telepathy features. <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-5"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec/">D-Bus interface specification</a> (older versions and spec-format notes available from <a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DbusSpec">DbusSpec</a>) <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-6"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/telepathy-glib/">telepathy-glib Reference Manual</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-7"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/telepathy-qt4/">telepathy-qt4 Reference Manual</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-8"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/telepathy-farsight/">telepathy-farsight Reference Manual</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-9"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/DeveloperNotes">DeveloperNotes</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.line-10"></span></p></li></ul><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-DevelopingWithTelepathy.bottom"></span></div> </td>
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</p><h2 id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.ContributingtoTelepathy">Contributing to Telepathy</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-2"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Git">Source Code Repository</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-3"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs">Bugs</a>, including good places to start hacking on Telepathy <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-4"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Debugging">Debugging</a>: how to obtain information when things break <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-5"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Style">Style</a>: style recommendations for Telepathy implementations <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-6"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Review%20Procedure">Review Procedure</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-7"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Roadmap">Roadmap</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.line-8"></span></p></li></ul><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ContributingToTelepathy.bottom"></span></div> </td>
  <td style="border: medium none;"><p class="line862"> </p><div dir="ltr" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.content" lang="en"><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.top"></span>
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<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-2"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-3"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://gnomejournal.org/article/86/telepathy-overview">Telepathy Overview for Novices</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-4"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://gnomejournal.org/article/84/telepathy-empathy-and-mission-control-5-in-gnome-228">Telepathy, Empathy and Mission Control 5 in GNOME 2.28</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-5"></span></p></li><li><p class="line891"><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Presentations">Presentations</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-6"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-7"></span></p></li></ul><p class="line867">
</p><h2 id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.DiscussTelepathy">Discuss Telepathy</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-8"></span><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-9"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a class="http" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy">Mailing list</a> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-10"></span></p></li><li><p class="line862">IRC channel: <tt>#telepathy</tt> on <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt> <span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.line-11"></span></p></li></ul><span class="anchor" id="FrontPage.2BAC8-ArticlesAndPresentations.bottom"></span></div></td>
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